One of the famous sports of New Zealand is Netball. It is an unfamiliar sport for Japanese. However, Netball is kind of basketball and it’s usually for women. I’m going to explain the rules of Netball.*Rules*
It is almost same as basketball and almost same place. But the game is a little bit complicated. The main feature of this game is:
*Can’t dribble
*The players have there own part and the moving places
*The basic movement is just pass and shoot the ball
*Can’t touch to the player who has the ball and make distance (more than 90cm) from them
*It can change the size of ball and time of the game depend on the player’s ages
There are about 6 positions:
*GS (Goal Shooter): the person who can shoot the ball.
*GA (Goal Attack): this is also shooter too but this person can move more widely than GS
*WA (Wing Attack): in the basketball word, the person is Offence
*C (Center): the most important person for the team and this is called commander
*WD (Wing Defense): this person could be the both Offence and Defense
*GD (Goal Defense): Defense only, opposite to the WA
*GK (Goal Keeper): the same position as the soccer game, this is the most important for the defense
The team member is usually 12 but the 7 of them can play the game and there’s no member change during the game. In the rest time or half time or the player injured, they could change the players. The players have to pass the ball within the 3 second or they lost there ball. The way to get the point is just same as the basketball! BUT if some player except GS or CA shoots the ball it can’t count for the point. This is the easy explanation of this game;) This is usually for women but now a day men joining to play the game.
A representative Netball player’s team of NZ is Silver Ferns. They won the 1st place in Netball World Championships in 1967, 1979, 1987 and 2003. Also in the Commonwealth Games they won 1st place in 2006. This team made up of all women and a very strong team in the NZ.
